kilobyte
kilobyte · kilobytes
кілобайт
килобайт
Kilobyte
One thousand bytesOne thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
US/kˈɪloʊbˌaɪt/
» There has been a lot of disagreement about exactly how many bytes are in a kilobyte.
Meaning
2 senses(especially)One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
Kilobyte
килоба́йтkilobájt
кілоба́йтkilobájt
a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes
(informal)A kibibyte.
Examples
1 sentencesThere has been a lot of disagreement about exactly how many bytes are in a kilobyte.
Translations
8 languagesУкраїнська
By meaning 1
1024 bytes:
Русский
By meaning 1
1024 bytes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
1024 bytes:
Origin
Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) + byte.Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) + byte.
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